Defense News Top 100 for 2012
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By total revenue, ascending. Revenue figures are in millions of U.S. dollars. Currency conversions for non-U.S. firms calculated using average market conversion rates over each firm's fiscal year to mitigate the effects of currency fluctuations.
| Rank | Company | Leadership | Country | Last Year's Rank |
2011 Defense Revenue |
2010 Defense Revenue |
% defense revenue change |
% of Revenue from Defense |
|
| 100 | Israel Military Industries | Avi Felder, President and CEO | Israel | 98 |
485.9 |
508.6 |
-4.5% |
485.9 |
100% |
| 95 | Nammo | Edgar Fossheim, CEO | Norway | 95 |
565.7 |
570.9 |
-0.9% |
565.7 |
100% |
| 96 | SRC | Paul Tremont, President | U.S. | 85 |
556.3 |
691 |
-19.5% |
572.1 |
97.2% |
| 90 | RSK MiG | Sergei Korotkov, Director | Russia | NR |
700.0 |
300.0 |
133.3% |
700.0 |
100% |
| 86 | Mission Essential | Marc Peltier, President | U.S. | NR |
718.2 |
622.7 |
15.3% |
725.5 |
99% |
| 98 | Ball Aerospace & Technologies | David Taylor, President and CEO | U.S. | NR |
491.2 |
416.6 |
17.9% |
784.0 |
62.7% |
| 84 | Alion Science and Technology | Bahman Atefi, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 79 |
726.1 |
771.8 |
-5.9% |
787.3 |
92.2% |
| 79 | LIG Nex | Hyo Koo-Lee, CEO | South Korea | 73 |
823.5 |
811.0 |
1.5% |
823.5 |
100% |
| 83 | Turkish Aerospace Industries | Muharrem Dörtkasli, President | Turkey | NR |
737.8 |
445.0 |
65.8% |
848.7 |
86.9% |
| 81 | Patria | Heikki Allonen, CEO | Finland | 89 |
779.5 |
658.4 |
18.4% |
861.6 |
90.5% |
| 76 | Aselsan | Cengiz Ergeneman, General Manager | Turkey | 80 |
848.4 |
762.2 |
11.3% |
899.6 |
94.3% |
| 97 | ARINC | John Belcher, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 92 |
495.1 |
649.8 |
-23.8% |
931.4 |
53.2% |
| 78 | Wyle | George Melton, Chairman, CEO and President | U.S. | 96 |
829.0 |
563.5 |
47.1% |
1,148.5 |
72.2% |
| 72 | Korea Aerospace Industries | Kim Hong Kyung, President and CEO | South Korea | NR |
898.2 |
854.3 |
5.1% |
1,169.9 |
76.8% |
| 67 | Ultra Electronics | Rakesh Sharma, CEO | U.K. | 71 |
961.5 |
878.0 |
9.5% |
1,172.5 |
82% |
| 61 | Nexter | Philippe Burtin, Chairman and CEO | France | 51 |
1,184.6 |
1,428.4 |
-17.1% |
1,184.6 |
100% |
| 62 | Chemring | David Price, CEO | U.K. | 69 |
1,156.0 |
901.1 |
24.4% |
1,191.8 |
97% |
| 69 | Bharat Electronics | Anil Kumar, Chairman and Managing Director | India | 64 |
943.1 |
997.7 |
-5.5% |
1,220.4 |
77.3% |
| 73 | Cubic | Walter Zable, Chairman, President and CEO | U.S. | 75 |
869.0 |
805.1 |
7.9% |
1,285.0 |
67.6% |
| 57 | Krauss-Maffei Wegmann | Frank Haun, President and CEO | Germany | 56 |
1,308.5 |
1,194.7 |
9.5% |
1,308.5 |
100% |
| 88 | FLIR | Earl Lewis, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 84 |
712.3 |
706.0 |
0.9% |
1,544.1 |
46.1% |
| 58 | Irkut | Alexei Fyodorov, President | Russia | 53 |
1,286.2 |
1,400.0 |
-8% |
1,626.0 |
79.1% |
| 94 | SRA International | William Ballhaus, President and CEO | U.S. | 88 |
567.0 |
661.0 |
-14.2% |
1,705.0 |
33.3% |
| 71 | CAE | Marc Parent, President and CEO | Canada | 72 |
904.5 |
850.9 |
6.3% |
1,842.9 |
49.1% |
| 91 | Teledyne Technologies | Robert Mehrabian, Chairman, President and CEO | U.S. | 82 |
694.4 |
727.4 |
-4.5% |
1,941.9 |
35.8% |
| 48 | Rafael Advanced Defense Systems | Yedidia Yaari, President and CEO | Israel | 46 |
1,979.0 |
1,844.8 |
7.3% |
1,979.0 |
100% |
| 66 | AAR | David Storch, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 68 |
962.0 |
942.4 |
2.1% |
1,989.5 |
48.4% |
| 77 | Ruag | Konrad Peter, Executive Chairman | Switzerland | 74 |
844.7 |
810.2 |
4.3% |
2,012.0 |
42% |
| 80 | Curtiss-Wright | Martin Benante, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 78 |
819.9 |
784.0 |
4.6% |
2,017.6 |
40.6% |
| 87 | RTI | Sergei Boev, Director | Russia | 100 |
718.1 |
449.0 |
59.9% |
2,093.0 |
34.3% |
| 75 | Moog | John Scannell, CEO | U.S. | NR |
855.0 |
837.0 |
2.2% |
2,331.0 |
36.7% |
| 70 | Meggitt | Terry Twigger, CEO | U.K. | 76 |
938.8 |
789.0 |
19% |
2,334.3 |
40.2% |
| 52 | QinetiQ | Leo Quinn, CEO | U.K. | 43 |
1,579.3 |
1,921.3 |
-17.8% |
2,357.2 |
67% |
| 56 | GKN | Marcus Bryson, CEO | U.K. | 58 |
1,371.4 |
1,054.2 |
30.1% |
2,375.5 |
57.7% |
| 42 | Aviation Holding Co. Sukhoi | Mikhail Pogosyan, Director | Russia | 52 |
2,479.5 |
1,404.2 |
76.6% |
2,610.0 |
95% |
| 63 | Samsung Techwin | Cheol Kyo Kim, CEO | South Korea | 61 |
1,092.0 |
1,032.0 |
5.8% |
2,684.5 |
40.7% |
| 53 | Kongsberg | Walter Qvam, CEO | Norway | 50 |
1,444.3 |
1,499.8 |
-3.7% |
2,704.1 |
53.4% |
| 99 | Day & Zimmermann | Harold Yoh, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 93 |
489.6 |
647.7 |
-24.4% |
2,728.2 |
17.9% |
| 38 | Elbit Systems | Joseph Ackerman, President and CEO | Israel | 33 |
2,676.6 |
2,536.6 |
5.5% |
2,817.5 |
95% |
| 35 | Mantech | George Pederson, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 34 |
2,772.4 |
2,494.7 |
11.1% |
2,870.0 |
96.6% |
| 51 | Cobham | Andy Stevens, CEO | U.K. | 42 |
1,894.4 |
1,998.7 |
-5.2% |
2,974.5 |
63.7% |
| 36 | Hindustan Aeronautics | Ravindra K. Tyagi, Chairman | India | 37 |
2,769.6 |
2,277.0 |
21.6% |
2,996.2 |
92.4% |
| 59 | United Enginebuilding | Andrei Reus, Director | Russia | 55 |
1,245.9 |
1,243.7 |
0.2% |
3,116.7 |
40% |
| 64 | Fincantieri | Giuseppe Bono, CEO | Italy | 67 |
1,085.9 |
943.0 |
15.2% |
3,315.7 |
32.8% |
| 39 | Russian Helicopters | Dmitry Petrov, Director | Russia | 44 |
2,644.3 |
1,905.4 |
38.8% |
3,416.4 |
77.4% |
| 41 | Israel Aerospace Industries | Itzhak Nissan, President and CEO | Israel | 36 |
2,508.0 |
2,380.0 |
5.4% |
3,436.0 |
73% |
| 31 | CACI International | Paul Cofoni, President and CEO | U.S. | 35 |
2,858.7 |
2,450.5 |
16.7% |
3,577.8 |
79.9% |
| 27 | Saab | Håkan Buskhe, CEO | Sweden | 28 |
3,258.9 |
3,100.0 |
5.1% |
3,626.7 |
89.9% |
| 22 | DCNS | Patrick Boissier, Chairman and CEO | France | 24 |
3,647.0 |
3,318.7 |
9.9% |
3,647.0 |
100% |
| 34 | DynCorp | Steven Gaffney, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 31 |
2,776.1 |
2,623.8 |
5.8% |
3,721.5 |
74.6% |
| 89 | Indra | Javier Monzón, Chairman | Spain | 77 |
709.7 |
788.4 |
-10% |
3,742.4 |
19% |
| 68 | Diehl Stiftung | Thomas Diehl, President and CEO | Germany | 66 |
946.6 |
963.7 |
-1.8% |
3,793.3 |
25% |
| 25 | Almaz-Antei | Vladislav Menshikov, director | Russia | 21 |
3,552.0 |
3,940.5 |
-9.8% |
4,188.7 |
84.8% |
| 60 | Dassault Aviation | Charles Edelstenne, CEO | France | 54 |
1,238.9 |
1,273.0 |
-2.7% |
4,600.6 |
26.9% |
| 28 | ATK8 | Mark DeYoung, President and CEO | U.S. | 29 |
3,250.0 |
2,730.0 |
19% |
4,618.4 |
70.4% |
| 49 | ST Engineering | Tan Pheng Hock, President and CEO | Singapore | 48 |
1,955.2 |
1,800.9 |
8.6% |
4,768.7 |
41% |
| 33 | Rockwell Collins | Clay Jones, Chairman, President and CEO | U.S. | 27 |
2,813.0 |
2,900.0 |
-3% |
4,806.0 |
58.5% |
| 32 | Babcock International | Peter Rogers, CEO | U.K. | 41 |
2,856.1 |
2,087.1 |
36.8% |
4,924.3 |
58% |
| 21 | ITT Exelis | David Melcher, President and CEO | U.S. | NR |
4,087.3 |
NA |
NA |
5,839.0 |
70% |
| 15 | Booz Allen Hamilton | Ralph Shrader, Chairman, President and CEO | U.S. | 16 |
4,860.0 |
4,662.0 |
4.2% |
5,900.0 |
82.4% |
| 74 | Embraer | Frederico Fleury Curado, President and CEO | Brazil | 87 |
866.8 |
671.3 |
29.1% |
5,914.8 |
14.7% |
| 29 | Harris | William Brown, President and CEO | U.S. | 32 |
2,984.7 |
2,622.3 |
13.8% |
5,924.6 |
50.4% |
| 30 | Rheinmetall | Klaus Eberhardt, CEO | Germany | 30 |
2,980.3 |
2,664.2 |
11.9% |
6,200.0 |
48.1% |
| 85 | Battelle | Jeffrey Wadsworth, President and CEO | U.S. | 81 |
718.9 |
753.2 |
-4.6% |
6,300.0 |
11.4% |
| 13 | Huntington Ingalls | Michael Petters, President and CEO | U.S. | NR |
6,575.0 |
NA |
NA |
6,575.0 |
100% |
| 50 | Serco | Christopher Hyman, CEO | U.K. | 49 |
1,900.0 |
1,669.5 |
13.8% |
7,285.6 |
26.1% |
| 18 | Oshkosh | Charles Szews, President and CEO | U.S. | 13 |
4,365.2 |
7,161.7 |
-39% |
7,584.7 |
57.6% |
| 43 | Goodrich | Marshall Larsen, Chairman, President and CEO | U.S. | 38 |
2,424.0 |
2,201.0 |
10.1% |
8,075.0 |
30% |
| 24 | URS | Martin Koffel, CEO | U.S. | 22 |
3,595.6 |
3,736.1 |
-3.8% |
9,545.0 |
37.7% |
| 65 | Jacobs Engineering | Craig Martin, President and CEO | U.S. | 59 |
1,036.3 |
1,053.1 |
-1.6% |
10,381.7 |
10% |
| 12 | SAIC5 | John Jumper, President and CEO | U.S. | 12 |
8,577.0 |
8,677.0 |
-1.2% |
10,657.0 |
80.5% |
| 19 | Textron | Scott Donnelly, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 20 |
4,171.0 |
3,999.5 |
4.3% |
11,275.0 |
37% |
| 47 | Navistar | Daniel Ustian, Chairman, Preisdent and CEO | U.S. | 40 |
2,000.0 |
2,151.0 |
-7% |
13,958.0 |
14.3% |
| 9 | L-3 Communications | Michael Strianese, Chairman, President and CEO | U.S. | 9 |
12,521.0 |
13,074.0 |
-4.2% |
15,169.0 |
82.5% |
| 17 | CSC | Michael Laphen, Chairman, President and CEO | U.S. | 17 |
4,498.0 |
4,502.0 |
-0.1% |
16,042.0 |
28% |
| 40 | Kawasaki Heavy Industries | Satoshi Hasegawa, President | Japan | 60 |
2,623.8 |
1,042.7 |
151.6% |
16,297.2 |
16.1% |
| 26 | Safran | Jean-Paul Herteman, Chairman and CEO | France | 25 |
3,267.3 |
3,142.4 |
4% |
16,336.5 |
20% |
| 16 | Rolls-Royce | John Rishton, CEO | U.K. | 18 |
4,691.5 |
4,483.3 |
4.6% |
17,432.0 |
26.9% |
| 11 | Thales | Luc Vigneron, Chairman and CEO | France | 11 |
9,492.6 |
9,956.0 |
-4.7% |
18,135.0 |
52.3% |
| 37 | Fluor | David Seaton, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 45 |
2,735.5 |
1,884.2 |
45.2% |
23,381.4 |
11.7% |
| 8 | Finmeccanica | Giuseppe Orsi, CEO | Italy | 8 |
14,584.6 |
14,442.9 |
1% |
24,106.8 |
60.5% |
| 5 | Raytheon | William Swanson, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 6 |
23,055.6 |
23,420.2 |
-1.6% |
24,791.0 |
93% |
| 82 | Accenture | Pierre Nanterme, CEO | Ireland | 83 |
758.0 |
725.0 |
4.6% |
25,500.0 |
3% |
| 6 | Northrop Grumman | Wes Bush, Chairman, President and CEO | U.S. | 3 |
21,400.0 |
31,181.0 |
-31.4% |
26,400.0 |
81.1% |
| 3 | BAE Systems | Ian King, CEO | U.K. | 2 |
29,130.2 |
33,109.5 |
-12% |
30,723.0 |
94.8% |
| 4 | General Dynamics | Jay Johnson, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 5 |
25,506.0 |
26,622.0 |
-4.2% |
32,677.0 |
78.1% |
| 44 | Bechtel | David Walker, President | U.S. | 39 |
2,400.0 |
2,200.0 |
9.1% |
32,900.0 |
7.3% |
| 23 | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | Hideaki Omiya, President and CEO | Japan | 26 |
3,610.0 |
3,039.4 |
18.8% |
35,261.3 |
10.2% |
| 14 | Honeywell | David Cote, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 15 |
5,300.0 |
5,400.0 |
-1.9% |
36,500.0 |
14.5% |
| 55 | NEC | Nobuhiro Endo, President (Representative Director) | Japan | 63 |
1,438.8 |
1,008.8 |
42.6% |
37,960.0 |
3.8% |
| 54 | Mitsubishi Electric | Kenichiro Yamanishi, President and CEO | Japan | 57 |
1,441.3 |
1,187.7 |
21.3% |
45,492.5 |
3.2% |
| 1 | Lockheed Martin | Robert Stevens, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 1 |
43,978.0 |
42,800.0 |
2.8% |
46,499.0 |
94.6% |
| 10 | United Technologies | Louis Chênevert, President and CEO | U.S. | 10 |
11,000.0 |
11,600.0 |
-5.2% |
55,800.0 |
19.7% |
| 92 | Fujitsu | Masami Yamamoto, President | Japan | 99 |
661.3 |
503.8 |
31.3% |
55,843.8 |
1.2% |
| 7 | EADS | Louis Gallois, CEO | Netherlands | 7 |
16,092.9 |
16,286.7 |
-1.2% |
68,386.2 |
23.5% |
| 2 | Boeing | W. James McNerney, Chairman, President and CEO | U.S. | 4 |
30,700.0 |
30,858.0 |
-0.5% |
68,735.0 |
44.7% |
| 93 | Toshiba | Norio Sasaki, Director, President and CEO | Japan | NR |
630.0 |
209.0 |
201.5% |
76,253.8 |
0.8% |
| 45 | Hewlett-Packard | Léo Apotheker, President and CEO | U.S. | 65 |
2,235.9 |
971.9 |
130.1% |
127,200.0 |
1.8% |
| 20 | GE | Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 19 |
4,100.0 |
4,100.0 |
0% |
147,300.0 |
2.8% |
| 46 | General Atomics | J. Neal Blue, Chairman and CEO | U.S. | 47 |
2,034.7 |
1,819.6 |
11.8% |
NA |
NA |